Your state’s pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the Missouri T&E solo who knows its own Probate Code (RSMo ch. 472–475) cold but still loses an afternoon a week hunting the current homestead number, the MO HealthNet posture, whether the latest opinion from Missouri Office of Legal Ethics Counsel changes how you scope an engagement, or whether a recent Missouri Court of Appeals decision just moved the law on capacity, undue influence, or a trustee’s duties. What’s below is what mattered in Missouri lately — the week’s developments and the recent rulings from the bench.
For licensed attorneys. This pack is general legal information and professional commentary for practicing attorneys — it is not legal advice, does not apply to any specific matter, and creates no attorney-client relationship. Verify every authority against the cited primary source before relying on it with a client. Published by Mike Moss, a Utah-admitted attorney, as an AI-enablement information product; it is not an offer of legal services and is not a representation that the author is admitted to practice in your jurisdiction.
Three developments from the last seven days that I think actually matter to a Missouri T&E solo. Each one has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each one comes with the citation so you can verify the detail yourself before you use it with a client.
Per the Missouri Senate bill tracker, Gov. Kehoe signed HB 754 / SB 221 — the Missouri Uniform Electronic Wills and Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act — on July 10, 2025. It applies to wills of decedents dying on or after Aug. 28, 2025, and to estate-planning documents signed or remotely witnessed on or after that date.
Any Missouri client signing online or witnessing remotely is now governed by new execution mechanics. Confirm the new electronic-execution and witnessing steps against the statute before relying on a remotely-executed instrument, and update intake and execution checklists that still assume wet-ink signing only.
Missouri Senate Bill Tracker · HB 754 / SB 221 · SENATE.MO.GOV
The Missouri Bar’s Probate & Trust Division-endorsed package — trust situs notice with a 60-day governing-law warning, trust termination, electronic estate planning, and validation of emergency/COVID-era remote witnessing — passed the General Assembly and took effect Aug. 28, 2025.
The 60-day situs notice with its governing-law warning is the easiest of the four to miss. If you move a trust’s situs into or out of Missouri, calendar the notice the day the situs changes, and refresh any template still silent on the warning.
The Missouri Bar · News · NEWS.MOBAR.ORG
The MO HealthNet Division’s current estate-recovery page confirms the live procedure: under RSMo 473.398 the personal representative must obtain and file a Division release before the estate of a MO HealthNet enrollee can close, with the statutory exemptions (surviving spouse; child under 21 or blind/disabled; recipient under 55) intact.
Keep the Division release on the closing checklist for every enrollee’s estate. A representative who petitions to close without it stalls the estate — and the release, not the family’s assumption that benefits were a gift, is what the court will look for.
MO HealthNet Division · Estate Recovery · DSS.MO.GOV
Decisions from the courts that bind a Missouri practitioner — the Missouri Supreme Court and the Missouri Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, and the Eighth Circuit — read for what actually changes how you draft, advise, and plan. Trusts and estates broadly, not Medicaid alone: wills and capacity, undue influence, fiduciary duty, trust construction, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
Across the Supreme Court of Missouri, the Missouri Court of Appeals, the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, and the Eighth Circuit, no qualifying trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision surfaced for this period that the lane could verify against an official reporter. Per the lane’s no-invent rule, this row says so plainly rather than inflating a holding.
Nothing to re-paper from the bench this period; controlling authority is unchanged.
Awaiting verified weekly signal — CourtListener used for discovery only, never cited as authority.
No qualifying appellate or federal trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision was verified against an official Missouri reporter during the trailing window. The lane reads, and reads-and-discards, Medicaid program/provider litigation as not T&E, and states the quiet result plainly rather than inflating a holding.
There is nothing new from the bench to re-paper into your forms or advice this period; rely on existing controlling authority until the next verified decision lands.
Official Missouri reporters · courts.mo.gov — CourtListener used for discovery only, never cited as authority.
This week in Missouri for the T&E solo with MO HealthNet clients: the developments from The Missouri Bar and MO HealthNet (DSS) that actually moved your practice this period — each one primary-source verified.
Bar and Medicaid changes land on different schedules and aren’t indexed by practice focus. Every item here was checked against its primary source, with the link, so you can verify before relying on it.